Tibetan Plateau
Proper noun
Meaning
Tibetan Plateau
A high altitude plateau north of the Great Himalaya ranges, west of the Szechuan basin, and south of the Taklamakan Desert.
Synonyms: Himalayan Plateau, Tibet Plateau
Examples
According to the researchers, the greatest declines were found in the Tibetan Plateau, eastern Europe and Alaska.
An Iron Age culture of the Tibetan Plateau has tentatively been associated with the Zhang Zhung culture described in early Tibetan writings.
Effects of climate change The Tibetan Plateau contains the world's third-largest store of ice.
Importantly, this fossil is from the time period known as the late Miocene when the Tibetan Plateau was continuing to rise rapidly in altitude and changing the climate of central Asia with an increase in aridity, along with a strong monsoon season.
OED online History Strengthening of the Asian monsoon has been linked to the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau after the collision of the Indian sub-continent and Asia around 50 million years ago.
In 2005, researcher and mountaineer John Semple established that above-average ozone concentrations on the Tibetan Plateau may pose an additional risk to climbers.